Captions are the text equivalent of the spoken word. Captioning your YouTube videos not only makes your videos accessible to people who are hard of hearing but it also enables viewers who do not have English as their first language to better understand the content of your video. Let us also not forget the office workers who wile away time slouching at their office desks viewing videos in silent mode yet looking ever so busy.

Things have been quiet on my blog over the past few weeks as I have been extremely busy at work and one of the projects the web team here have been working on is the launch of the YouTube channel for London South Bank University (LSBU).

Twitter has just just launched their dummy’s guide to using twitter – “Twitter 101″ with some really interesting case studies about how businesses have successfully implemented Twitter into their online strategies. Twitter have also provided on the site a downloadable slide version of their guide for those of us thinking about promoting Twitter usage within our organisations.

Social media provides us with a means of reaching out and interacting with a huge number of people that only a few years ago would have been practically impossible. But with the ever increasing number of social media sites we are on, for most of us it has become a nightmare to keep track of our profiles or even to decide which of our profiles would be the best to give out as our main point of contact.

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